MALE CIRCUMCISION AND FEMALE CIRCUMCISION
AMONG JEWS, CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS
RELIGIOUS, MEDICAL, SOCIAL AND LEGAL DEBATE
by Sami A. Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh

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This book is an English language revised edition of a book in two volumes published in Arabic by Riad El-Rayyes in Beirut and prefaced by Dr. Nawal Al-Saadawi. It is also available in French, as published by L'Harmattan, Paris, 2001.
It is based on 600 sources in five languages: Arabic, English, French, Italian and German

This book presents the religious, medical, social and legal debate among Jews, Christians and Muslims over male and female circumcision.

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Sami A. Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh, doctor in law
Staff Legal Adviser for Arab and Islamic Law
Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne, Switzerland

Author of the book in French: Les Musulmans face aux droits de l'homme: droit, religion et politique

Winkler, Bochum, 1994, 610 pages. e-mail: Winkler-Verlag.Bochum@t-online.de 
See the list of my publication at: http://go.to/samipage




Summary table of contents of the book on circumcision

Summary table of contents         11
General observations      13
Foreword  by Marilyn Fayre Milos          15
Introduction      17
Part I - Definition and distribution  of circumcision     23
Part II - Religious debate        35
Chapter I - Circumcision among the Jews   35
Section I - Male circumcision in Jewish holy books        36
Section II - Obligatory character of circumcision         42
Section III - Jews opposed to circumcision        55
Section IV - Jewish circumcision operation        77
Sub-section I - Bloody circumcision       77
Sub-section II - Non-bloody circumcision          97
Chapter II - Circumcision among Christians        104
Section I - Male circumcision in the Christian holy books         104
Section II - Position of the Church Fathers and theologians       112
Section III - Present debate among Christians     119
Section IV - Christian aberrations about circumcision     133
Chapter III - Circumcision among Muslims          142
Section I - Circumcision in the Koran     143
Section II - Circumcision in the sunnah of Muhammad       153
Section III - Circumcision in the previous prophets' laws         164
Section IV - Circumcision in the sunnah of Muhammad's successors          167
Section V - Position of the classic Muslim jurists        171
Section VI - Secondary arguments          173
Section VII - Consequences of circumcision        177
Section VIII  - Muslim circumcision operation     183
Part III - The medical debate     193
Chapter I  - Relationship between clergy and physicians   193
Chapter II - Trivializations and exaggerations of circumcision    198
Chapter III - Circumcision and pain       202
Chapter IV - Health damages of circumcision       210
Chapter V - Sexual damages from circumcision      220
Chapter VI - Supposed health advantages of circumcision   237
Chapter VII - Foreskin restoration        272
Part IV - The social debate       279
Chapter I - From self-mutilation to cultural mutilation   279
Chapter II - Influence of the milieu on circumcision      288
Chapter III - Influence of religion on circumcision       294
Chapter IV - Circumcision and control of sexual instinct          298
Chapter V - Circumcision and marriage     303
Chapter VI - Circumcision in tribal and communal systems          312
Chapter VII  - Circumcision and the instinct of domination        319
Chapter VIII - Circumcision and economic factors          331
Chapter IX - Circumcision and political factors   347
Chapter X - Psychological and social effects of circumcision      368
Chapter XI - Educational and psychological measures against circumcision          381
Part V - The legal debate         391
Chapter I  - Historical legal prohibition of male circumcision    391
Chapter II - International condemnation of female circumcision    396
Chapter III - National condemnation of female circumcision        403
Chapter IV - NGOs opposed to female and male circumcision         414
Chapter V  - Circumcision and human rights        426
Chapter VI - Circumcision and medical dispensation        452
Chapter VII  - Interdiction of circumcision between ideal and feasibility         476
Chapter VIII  - Circumcision and political asylum         493
Conclusion        503
Bibliography      505
Extensive table of contents       523